Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East v. West. Serious interracial friction might have come to China with U.S. pilots and groundmen. That it did not was due in part to Claire Chennault. He insisted on having waiters and houseboys who spoke English in the barracks, to minimize language friction. Striking a Chinese, carrying arms on visits to nearby towns, promiscuous firing of arms were made court-martial offenses. Pilots were forbidden to "buzz" airfields: the diving planes frightened the Chinese laborers...
...feud among U.S. officials in Moscow grew confused and hot. The friction between Faymonville and Brigadier General Joseph Anthony Michela, military attaché, grew no less intense when Ambassador Admiral Standley arrived. Faymonville, already at odds with his military colleagues, locked horns with State...
...consulate had been established at Urumchi in March; in September a British consul arrived. Traffic in Urumchi this fall was back again on the left side of the road, as in Central China. Thus peacefully, with the minimum possible friction, China once again moved up to the great frontiers of her past history...
...Russians, this assemblage bore promise of war's end. True, there was friction among the Allies, but it was not beyond repair. Indeed, open discussion of the friction might be a healthy sign. The Government's Izvestia ticked off samples of "developing cooperation": the recent food conference at Hot Springs, Va.; agreement on the economic rehabilitation of freed territory; the creation, at Stalin's suggestion, of the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission; the joint acceptance by the U.S.S.R., Britain and the U.S. of Italy's re-entry into the war as a cobelligerent...
...Empire. There is, therefore, an historic, although not necessarily a dangerous, conflict between the landmass empire of Russia and the globe-girdling, sea-&-air-knit Empire of Britain. In the Middle East the land-empire and the sea-empire meet-and where they meet, there may always be friction...